0 past simple and past participle of nosedive --
1 to suddenly fall to the ground with the front pointing down: --
It didn't just go downhill, it nosedived.
The plane immediately nosedived to the ground.
The club's form nosedived in the 192122 season, with a finishing position of nineteenth, before bouncing back to a fifth-placed finish the following campaign.
A witness described hearing the engine making a rattling noise shortly before the aircraft nosedived.
Land values in the "barrio" proper suddenly nosedived.
Local media made lurid reports, and diplomatic relations between the countries nosedived.
Witnesses who saw the plane in the air afterward claim it was flying erratically, then nosedived and exploded on impact.
Shortly after taking off, the control tower lost contact with the aircraft which began flying erratically and eventually nosedived and exploded on impact.
